Obaapanin Oforiwaa Adu

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Organisation: 
University of Education
Role: 
Director
Address: 
University of Education, Winneba P.O. BOX 25 Winneba Ghana
Tel: 
+233 241 584938

I have been engaged since 2005 in Pan-Afrikan Reparations Scholar Activism and Global Justice Advocacy with specialization in Pan-Afrikan Decolonization perspectives on gender empowerment and sustainable development.

I have experiential learning from working with the International Secretariat of the All-Africa Students Union (AASU) in Accra, Ghana, from where I proceeded to develop Pan-Afrikan Scholarly interest in global justice advocacy with the Rendezvous of Victory (ROV) and the GRASSNIF and the GJF during the furtherance of my education at the London South Bank University, UK.

I returned home to work in the University of Education, Winneba, Ghana and continued Action Research and further studies not only at the University of Sussex, Brighton but also with various other academic and community educational networks, developing my decolonization works on gender empowerment and sustainable development. I did this under the influence of the UNESCO Chair in community-based research and social responsibility in higher education in the direction of Pan-Afrikan Reparatory Justice for Planet Repairs.

Network: 
  • Miano Asaase Yaa planet Rep-airs Action Research and Studies Circle (MAYPRARSC), MAYCESC and UEW Outpost, Nsawam and Winneba, Ghana
  • NEHANDANOVIWO Grassroots All Afrikan Womens Internationalist Solidarity Sisterhood, (NEHANDANOVIWO-GAAWISS), Accra, Ghana
  • Grassroots Womens Internationalist Solidarity Action (GWISAN), Kolkata, India.
  • Grassroots South-North Internationalist Forum (GRASSNIF). Accra, Ghana
  • Global Justice Forum (GJF)
Actions: 

I support the community-based action research works of the MAYPRARSC from its UEW Academic outpost in my charge, offering academic advice, guidance and support to NEHANDANOVIWO-GAAWISS, the GWISAN, the GRASSNIF and GJF scholar activists; and conducting interviews on Pan-Afrikan Reparations for Planet Repairs with various Indigenous and other community leaders and activists, particularly women and youth.

Publications: 

Obaapanin Oforiwaa Adu, 'Power is the Cause of Africa's Poverty', Action Magazine (London, 2006), p. 14.

Obaapanin Oforiwaa Adu, 'Interview with Awura Adwoa Adu from Rendezvous of Victory (ROV) in London on the importance of remembering slavery', Realaudio file (6 minutes 38 second).

Obaapanin Oforiwaa Adu, 'Message from the Grassroots', SAVO Newsletter (Southwark, London).

Obaapanin Oforiwaa Adu, 'Ain’t I A Woman?', Simba Newsletter (Greenwich, London).

Obaapanin Oforiwaa Adu, 'Let’s talk Slavery', New Nation (London) 

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